Oral Session #14: Disturbance Effects on Bird Populations.

Presiding: S.E. Sable, Louisiana State University.
Sunday, August 6, 2000
1:00 PM to 4:45 PM
Cottonwood Room I - Sports Event Center

1:00 PM	The effects of resource-imposed nesting aggregations on nesting success in Loggerhead Shrikes in Southwest Oklahoma. ETTERSON, M.A.
1:15 PM	Prescribed burning to restore mixed-oak communities in southern Ohio: Effects on breeding bird populations. ARTMAN, V.L. , J.F. DOWNHOWER
1:30 PM	Effects of prescribed burns on abundance and habitat selection of wintering cavity-nesting birds. BATEMAN, H.L. , M.A. O'CONNELL
1:45 PM	Spatially scaled response of a Lazuli Bunting population to fire: Further evidence for hierarchical habitat selection in birds. LEIDOLF, A. , T. NUTTLE and M.L. WOLFE
2:00 PM	Effects of landscape structure on avian community compostion and probability of occurrence in fire-dominated Mediterranean ecosystems. RECHEL, J.L. , D.M. FREEMAN and D.A. LARSON
2:15 PM	Exotic herbivores facilitate the near extinction of an insular mesopredator. ROEMER, G.W. , D.K. GARCELON and T.J. COONAN
2:30 PM	Linking avian communities, riparian vegetation, and geomorphology along a prairie river, USA. SKAGEN, S.K. , M.L. SCOTT and M.F. MERIGLIANO
2:45 PM	Response of avian assemblages to fragmentation in a tropical rain forest in Kenya. MAINAGITOGO, G. , W.M. JACKSON
3:00 PM	Break
3:15 PM	Spatial dispersion of migratory shorebirds at the continental scale: Implications for conservation. PAYNE, L.X. , B.A. HARRINGTON and S.A. TEMPLE
3:30 PM	Current consequences of an ancient introduction: Rats, island characteristics and colonial nesting birds in the Mediterranean. MARTIN, J. , J. THIBAULT and V. BRETAGNOLLE
3:45 PM	Human settlement and avian communities in lowland riparian areas. MILLER, J.R. , J.A. WIENS and N.T. HOBBS
4:00 PM	Pond selection and use by migrating trumpeter swans in Southern Alberta. LAMONTAGNE, J.M.
4:15 PM	Sex-biased dispersal affects source-sink dynamics of a parrot metapopulation. BEISSINGER, S.R. , B.K. SANDERCOCK
4:30 PM	Assessing the impacts of landscape change on mobile animals. SISK, T.D. , B.R. NOON and H.M. HAMPTON